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It's April 29th

Happy birthday to Marianne, alias Miss Goldenweek! She is 18.

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The most important thing to do with a character who is really cool is to make them lame as hell.

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Neil Gaimain about writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett (x)

Neil: His line to me when we were writing “Good Omens”, he would phone me up and he’d say, I’ve just done this and it’s made it 17% funnier. I’d written this whole meeting between the International Express man and Pollution and I’d mentioned that, you know, ‘he and his wife went down there sometimes when they were courting to spoon’ and Terry added the line, ‘and on one memorable occason, fork.’

Rob: On one memorable occasion.

Neil: On one memorable occasion, and it‘s made it 17% better. In fact, in that case it may have made it 100% better.

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Out of all the Final Fantasy summons Alexander is by far my favourite and I wanna know how it was pitched because it is a buckwild concept

It is a massive steampunk robot the size of a castle

The robot can be summoned by magic for some reason

The essence of the robot has multiple times been summoned directly into existing fortresses which then turn into the robot

The robot uses "holy" type magic for some reason

Its signarure attack is called "Divine Judgement" implying it has a code of ethics it enforces

The robot can sometimes control time for some reason

The robot has no legs except sometimes it does

It is sometimes depicted as having four giant angel wings

It was named after Alexander the Great for some reason

Just look at it

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The default length of pasta is designed to fit on a supermarket shelf, not to be the best length for cooking/eating.

Feel free to break it to any length you want (don't let the Italians know I said this)

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Dave doesn’t think there’s anything unusual about the Home Alone movies. That’s just what life is like.

Do you think Dave Strider like, legally existed? Did he have a social security number? Did noted unhinged Texan Bro Strider ever actually make the choice of "I should tell the federal government about my end-times warrior child"? Because now that I'm thinking about it I would not bet money on it.

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legend of vox machina text posts: percy de rolo edition

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I mean the answer could just as easily have been “she gets good grades BECAUSE she asks all these questions, because asking for clarification when you don’t understand something is how you learn”

There are no stupid questions

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video credit: Rob Harcourt

Not only can you see the MOMENT this Weddell seal decided to prank the Crabeater seal, BUT HE LAUGHS AT HIM AFTER HE DOES IT! Ah Weddells <3

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It's April 25th

Happy birthday, Penguin of the Heart Pirates! He is 28.

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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I attended a Passover Seder that was also a D&D game tonight, and I got inspiration for arguing with god.

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Seder Plate from Pre-Expulsion Spain

1480

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

"This plate, the earliest known Seder plate in existence, belongs to a small group of Jewish ceremonial objects that survived the expulsion from Spain. The inscription in the center refers to the main components of the festival: pesah (Paschal lamb), matzah, maror (bitter herbs), and seder. The errors in the Hebrew inscription may be the result of its having been copied by a non-Jewish artist who was unfamiliar with Hebrew letters."

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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

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today on neat hozier retweets: disappearing birds!

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currently reading an article about the fact that the first time Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author" was published, it was in this particular special issue of Aspen magazine focused on materialism and minimalism, and that the essay was intended be to read in conjunction with this variety of multimedia experiences in the magazine, and THEREFORE that we've been understanding Barthes' point incorrectly all this time because we failed to take the special circumstances of its publication into account.

and that's just. screamingly funny to me. y'know. considering what the essay is about.